Pantaloons



(No Model.)

J. E. BLOOM.

Pantaloons.

No. 242,426. I

Patented June 7, i88i.

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JWJMWD UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JACOB E. BLOOM, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

PA NTALOONS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 242,426, dated June '7', 1881.

Application filed March 14, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JACOB E. BLOOM, a. citizen ofthe United States, residing at Cincinnati, county of Hamilton, and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Pantaloons, andI do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective View of the thimble-belt to be attached to the pantaloons. Fig. 2 is a front perspective view of the pantaloons with the thimbles attached directly to the waistband of the pantaloons. Fig. 3 represents a rear perspective view of the pantaloons, showing the thimbles attached to th e waistband and additional straps and buckles for attaching the loops of pistolholsters, knife-scabbards, &c. Fig. 4 represents a section and plan view of the buttons to be attached to the pantaloons. Fig. 5 represents a perspective front view of this invention when the thimble-belt is worn as one piece and directly as the waistband ot' the pantaloons. Fig. 6 represents, respectively, a section and plan of a plate which may be sewed on the interior side of the waistband and to the plate of button A.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, C represents the body of the pantaloons; b, the consecutive loops or thimbles to hold the cartridges 0 a, the waistband; d, the seam 5 joining the body of the pantaloons and waistband; 0, buckle-straps for passing through and holding the loops of pistol-holsters and knitescabbards; X,the main tightening-strap at the rear of the pantaloons N, the hip-pockets, and M the side pockets, of the pantaloons; 1', the buttons for attaching the ordinary suspenders.

Heretot'ore soldiers, hunters,&c., have been obliged to provide themselves with a cartridge-bel t, pouch, &c., for the purpose of carrying their fixed ammunition. In these belts is one variety of belt known as the thimblebelt, consisting of a waistbelt proper with a second belt sewed thereon, so as to form a consecutive series of loops or thiinbles, eachot' which is intended to hold a cartridge.

The principal object of my invention is to combine the ordinary pantaloons of soldiers and hunters with the thimble-belt in such manner as to dispense with the waistbelt proper of the latter, either by sewing the thiinbles directly upon the waistband and body of the pantaloons or by using the thimble-belt itself as the waistband for the pantaloons.

The common method of carrying pistol-holsters and knit'e-scabbards is by an extra belt passing through the loops of said holsters, 850. I obviate the necessity of this by the straps e sewed to the pants at the corners of the hippockets N, and intended to pass through the loops of tire holsters. They are made broad and strong and can be buckled up or loosened, so as to provide for large or small holsters or scabbards. The pockets are not obstructed by this method of carrying the holsters, and such method can be used with advantage with the ordinary pantaloons.

The ordinary waist buckle and strap areshown at m, Fig. 3, and the Suspender-buttons at r. In connection with the buttons A, I use a plate, C placed on the inside of the waistband and sewed to the plate of the buttons through the openings to, and for this purpose I prefer to use wire thread. By the use of the plate G I prevent the tearing of the button A out of the cloth, and also prevent the cloth from bein g torn, as I have a broad bearingsurface on the inside of the waistband for the plate C".

The thimble belt may be woven as one piece and used directly as the waistband of the pantaloons, as shown in Fig. 5, the bottom line, 07, ot the belt being also the seam ofjunction with the body C of the pantaloons. The dotted vertical lines in the figures represent the seams of the thimbles, which do not go below the seam d. In this case the same strength is not attained as in the method represented in Figs. 2 and 3, inasmuch as in the latter method le'ss strain falls upon seam (I, because the thimbles thereon overlap thisseam and are firmly sewed to the body of the pantaloons as well as to the waistband (1. Therefore I prefer this latter method of using my invention. However, the method shown in Fig. 5 is best adapted for em ploying the improved thimblebelt where the thiinbles are woven in one piece with the belt.

The method ofusing theimproved pantaloons is obviously the same as that employed with IOC.

the common thimble-belt. Its advantages lie in its convenience,in saving the weight of one belt, in facility of suspending the weight of the cartridges from the shoulder through the ordinary suspenders; and, furthermore, in enabling the soldier to carry the additional number of cartridges, inasmuch as the improved pantaloons can be worn at the same time and without interfering with the regular accoutermen ts, including waist-belt and cartridge-box.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, in and with a pair of pantaloons, of the ordinary thimbles ot' thimble-belt with the waistband and body of the pantaloons, substantially as dest-ribed, and for the purpose set forth.

2. A pair ofpantaloons provided with a middle buckle-strap, X, and two additional bucklestraps, e, on each side of the middle strap, for the purpose ofat taching pistol-holsters on said straps, substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

3. A pair of pantaloons having a thimblebelt, a, forming the waistband of the pantaloons, thereby dispensing with the ordinary waistband, substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

4. A pair of pantaloons provided with a waistband consisting of a cartridge-belt sewed to the body of the pantaloons in such manner that the bottom edge or line of the thimble also forms the seam of junction with the body of the pantaloons, substantially as set forth.

5. A pair of pantaloons provided with a cartridge-thimble belt sewed to the body of the pantaloons in such manner that said belt shall overlap the seam of the waistband of the pantaloons, and thereby reduce the strain upon said seam, substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

J. E. BLOOM.

\Vitnesses:

J. KRAMER, S. P. KRAMER. 

